“Playing her (Angie Martinez) was like a dream.” –Lian Toni Amado The hip-hop community is buzzing about the release of the long-fabled Tupac biopic, All Eyes On Me. Like most of the world, we’ve been following the movie’s...
“As long as you have life, you can put up that fight!” — Cost Back in 2011, Bronx rapper, Cost, was looking for a band to back him for live performances. What he found is what we now,...
Master P [arguably] helped the southern hip-hop scene (specifically the NO) go mainstream, Mac Miller and Wiz Khalifa contributed to making Pittsburgh a viable name in the game, and Drake pretty much made “the 6” a thing —...
“There’s no glory in keeping it real — most people can’t handle the truth.” That’s the type of gems you’re going to get from London, UK, rapper Elijah Kaizen. He’s an artist’s artist, who seems to exhibit the...
“I don’t think that there’s pressure on any females to be lyrical. I don’t think anyone looks for us to be lyrical anymore.” – Intelligenz When it comes to contemporary hip-hop, there seems to be a definitive blueprint...
“I love reintroducing the songs that I know and love to another generation.” —F. Carpé An interesting artist landed in my inbox this week; Fantastical Carpé, shortened to F. Carpé made his way onto my watch list, and...
“Can’t be caught asleep if you the one these niggas sleeping on.” —Sir B Just got my hands on a new project from the land of beautiful girls and palm trees, California. It comes from Sir B, an...
Have you ever wondered what eccentric Icelandic singer Björk would sound like over the heavy snared boom-bap hip-hop sound of the great DJ Premier? Well, you don’t have to start combing Google for a unicorn DJ blend that...